@film 10) Twelve Angry Men - aside from being just an amazing movie, I saw it when I was a young tween, and it helped me understand that there is more than one side to almost everything. Don’t let your biases, fears, and assumptions cloud your thinking. And don’t go along with the crowd just to fit in. Easier said than done, but always important to strive for. And I do try, however imperfectly.
@Bam@film ☺️❤️☺️❤️☺️
I’ve never met another person who has seen it!!! I had it on VHS I think (maybe even recorded from tv?) but I managed to find a pirated dvd copy from eBay several years back and I will guard it with my life until the end of time. ❤️
Manchmal ist so 1 Film mit einer starken männlichen Hauptrolle ja ganz nett. Dann gern mit Joaquin Phoenix oder Casey Affleck — die mag ich.
Witzig, dass die beiden befreundet UND verschwägert sind und gemeinsame Projekte machen. @filmeundserien@film
I saw this movie years ago (back in the mid-90s I think) and it stuck with me ever since. I found a copy online recently and watched it last night. I really like it. It's a mystery thriller set in New York and New Orleans in the 1950s. It has that old timey noir feeling. Recommended if you haven't seen it. #MovieNight@film
@ShaulaEvans@film I don’t have any recommendation but I love Every Frame a Painting and cinematography, came here to lurk and find more resources. Following!
“A widowed former reverend living with his children and brother on a Pennsylvania farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields, which suggests something more frightening to come.” (from IMDB)
Filmed on location, Ferris Bueller and the gang head to the Art Institute of Chicago, where they admire art, hold hands with a line of children, and engage in self-reflection and discovery.
Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul invites you to his PlayLab!
"The Apichatpong Weerasethakul Lab offers 12 days of immersive learning, meditation, shared meals, and walks, providing a nurturing environment for diverse, creative minds to unlearn and reimagine the art of filmmaking."
Another screenshot from LA ROUE (1923) Blu-ray. I've been going down a #MontBlancMassif rabbit hole while writing up an extensive review (forthcoming) of the film and 2020 restoration. @film#Cinemastodon#SilentFilm
"Bonus content" from my month-long deep dive into the 1923 film LA ROUE. I did not publish this on my review of the film, but it was fun looking up #GoogleEarth views of #MontBlancMassif. The film crew set up camp at Col de Voz which you can see in the foreground of this 3D screenshot. @film#Cinemastodon#SilentFilm
@nadinmai@film Tom Conti plays Einstein, one of those actors you never rememeber the name of, but he has appeared in so many movies, one would definitely recognze his face.
I'm not sure I'll have time to go see it, but it looks like a blast (no pun intended).
@Ductos@nadinmai@film I found the trailer to be very Marvel-esque. I know that corporate exes have to dumb everything down, so there may be hope. Fascinating post bomb story. Here’s a great BBC Storyville documentary that covers this
Marty orders a Pepsi Free at the Lou’s Cafe, the local diner, to Lou’s confusion and consternation. Lou responds: “You want a Pepsi, pal, you're gonna pay for it.”
Despite its sensationalist pulpy title and #ColdWar premise, Jack Arnold's adaptation of the #RichardMatheson novel is an existentialist treatise.
The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) plays with the understanding of what it means to be acknowledged as a human, and one's place in the world. The story is told through the eyes of the titular Shrinking Man – Scott Carey – who after being exposed to strange fog, finds himself increasingly lost in this world.
A Walloon language professor and his French set designer fiancée are at an impasse. While his Flemish students vocally protest against more Walloon influence at their uni, the couple - who superficially speak the same #language, #French - struggles to find the right words. They meet, part ways, then find each other again on a train that at morning turns out to be standing still in the middle of nowhere. The man, now without her, disembarks and with two acquaintances who also were on that train tries to find out where he and she are. André Delvaux's Un soir, un train (1968) is a masterpiece about finding the right language in a fractured world.
#Peace, little girl aka Daisy aka Daisy Girl was the #PoliticalAd campaign to end all ad campaigns. It opens innocently enough with a little blonde girl, picking the petals of an ox-eye #daisy while counting. When the final petal's gone, the tone changes completely*
This deceptively simple #propaganda#film was made in support of Lyndon B. Johnson's 1964 presidential campaign by ad agency #DBB and media consultant #TonySchwartz. It was so effective and bleak in is insinuations that the Johnson campaign was forced to pull it after only one screening.
What fascinates me is the similarity with one particular scene from James Whale's Frankenstein (1931). The Monster (#Karloff) meets a little girl who sits on the shore of a lake, picking daisies. He approaches her, and the girl, knowing the creature is a good man at heart, invites him to play a game with her involving them tossing the daisies into the lake. <spoiler>When they run out of daisies, the Monster picks up the girl who to him is as pretty and innocent as a flower, and throws her into the water.</spoiler>.
This scene was cut and considered lost until the 1980s. Could Tony Schwartz have been aware of that scene? He was at the right age to have seen the pre-code, pre-cut version.
